Inquiry and Guided Practice strategies

One easy way to engage in inquiry-based learning is to present instruction around questions or issues rather than information. Encourage students to propose answers to the questions or support a position on the issue. Limit your own lecture or explanations to short, but critical points that expand how students address the questions.

Some examples related to meteorology include:

• Why do you think X phenomenon occurs more/less frequently in Y location?
• What are the key ingredients required for X processes to take place?
• How might you go about researching how or why X occurs so that it can be forecast?
  
• What observing systems would you need for monitoring and forecasting X well?
  
• What data would you use to forecast Z parameter? 
  
• Which conceptual model would explain this weather data we see on xx/xx/xxxx over Eastern Europe?
• How could you better disseminate forecast information to those living in least-developed, rural locations?

For online inquiry, you can use different formats of discussion forum, and email group, chat, or an external community website.

Use Forum for posing a questions or File to share a presentation that sets up a larger question.

Use Lightbox Gallery to share image or a slide and use the comment box below for posting Q & A.

Use an ungraded Quiz for both presenting questions and also information within Hints and Feedback. Complex questions can be presented using the Essay open question format. Use Forum to continue group conversation.

Record a video and embed it into a Page. Set up a Chat session to discuss it.